Riders neg list QB Trace McSorley guides Penn State in Fiesta Bowl

On Saturday, quarterback Trace McSorley will guide Penn State into their second major bowl game since he took over the starting job.

He’s also been on the Riders neg list since December 2016.

As a redshirt sophomore, McSorley led the Nittany Lions to a Big Ten Championship with 384 yards and four touchdowns in the conference title game, which earned him MVP honours. He led the Big Ten in passing yards (3,614) and QB rating (156.9) while putting up 29 touchdowns against just eight interceptions and rushing for 365 yards and seven scores in 2016. Penn State lost a classic shootout in the Rose Bowl 52-49 to USC.

McSorley followed that up by throwing for 3,228 yards, 26 touchdowns and eight interceptions and improving his completion rate by eight points from 57 to 65 in 2017. He rushed for more yards (431) and touchdowns (11) as a junior. Penn State finished the regular schedule 10-2 and play Washington in the Fiesta Bowl December 30.

McSorley already owns Penn State records for single-season passing yards (3,614), touchdowns passes (29) and he’s the only quarterback in school history to have more than 50 career touchdown throws (55).

He is a mediocre QB with a weak arm. Looks better than he is because of major talent around him. Jones probably read Sports Illustrated top 50 college QB’s 2017 edition and put him on his neg list. Along with the 49 other names. That’s how this team seems to scout.

Big flippin deal, show me a CFL QB that has not done something special in US college.Former Argo backup QB broke Dan Marino`s records

John Congemi – CFL Scrapbook
cfl-scrapbook.no-ip.org/Congemi.John.php
Congemi has come in during tougher situations. As a redshirt freshman at the University of Pittsburgh, Congemi replaced hometown hero Dan Marino and broke a lot of Marino’s records

College careers are little indication of pro success. If it was no one would be talking about Johnny Manziel coming to the CFL as he’d be a multiple MVP, 3 time Superbowl MVP with the Cleveland Browns. Conversely, no one would speak of Tom Brady because he’s be a khaki wearing insurance salesman living in Lincoln Nebraska.

Are you talking of the same Bo Levi who plays for the Calgary Stampeders? The one with the best record in CFL history? 59-13-2? 115 career TD passes vs 45 INTs? Is that the guy you mean?
Pick 6? I don’t think Bo has ever thrown a pick 6. It makes no sense.

Riders have little choice on who there QB will be whether he’s a winner or not!

Oh right!
I forgot all about that. It was an unimportant game for Calgary, scored at an unimportant point of the game where Calgary basically said “who cares” and let him walk into the end zone.
Shows you how memorable that play was outside of riderville. I guess when you celebrate a 10-8 regular season little things mean alot!

This loser needs his team to win in order to feel good about himself, and views himself as successful because his team is successful. A psychological explanation:

An Extension of Self
Team identification not only fosters a sense of social belonging, but also it impacts individual self-esteem.

In a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in the early 1990s, Hirt and colleagues examined the effects of team allegiance on individuals’ beliefs about their own competence and self-esteem. They brought participants who reported being highly identified with their college basketball teams into the lab and showed them a tape of their teams either winning or losing. Afterwards, each participant was asked to predict how well he or she thought the team would do in the future. Participants were also asked to make seemingly unrelated estimates of their own performance on motor, mental, and social-skills tasks.

“The most powerful thing we found was that for highly allied fans, they really did view the team’s success akin to how they would view a personal success,” says Hirt.

Fans who watched their team win reported significantly higher estimates of the team’s future performance, their own task performance, and personal self-esteem than did those who watched their team lose. The boost that the winning-team group received was similar to the boost that participants received when they personally succeeded or failed at a task.

A really good QB prospect especially for the CFL. A few other Penn State QBs made their mark way back when in the CFL Pete Liske and John Hufnagle. If McSorley gets passed over by the NFL he might be the next Penn State QB to make his mark in the league. Time will tell.